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California GOP Stopped a Much Worse Folly

Without the this reform, the far left would have created and implemented a carbon-tax command and control that would have caused taxes to skyrocket.

July 20, 2017 1:58 p.m. ET

Regarding your editorial “California’s Climate Cap and Spend” (July 19): As sea levels rise, wildfires rage and climate science becomes more alarming, the Journal has once again aligned itself with the Flat Earth Society. While scientists like Stephen Hawking warn us that organized human existence hangs in the balance and implore us to take swift climate action, your readers are encouraged to focus on low politics. Republicans, who voted for this bill, we’re instructed, “will now have a harder time using cap and trade as an issue next fall.”